Israel Condemning Persists Even as UN Official Admits Hamas Uses Their Buildings

A senior UN official, UN OCHA director, John Ging, confirmswhat the IDF and other informed experts have been saying all along, but to little avail. In a television interview yesterday, Ging said that Hamas terrorists "are firing their rockets into Israel from the vicinity of UN facilities and residential areas."

This statement by so senior a UN official confirms what the IDF has said repeatedly since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, namely that Hamas uses Gaza's civilian population as a human shield. This is a transcript of the key moments in this video. If you begin at 4:19, you will see and hear this:

JOHN GING: The militants, Hamas, and the other armed groups, they are firing also their weaponry, the rockets, into Israel from the vicinity of these [UN] installations and housing and so on, so the combat is being conducted very much in a residential built up area.

CBC NEWS ANCHOR: The Israeli government has said repeatedly that Hamas is using human shields, they are using UN schools, hospitals -- not only, by the way, to store weapons -- I know 3 UN-run schools have been found with munitions stored in them, as weapons depots -- but in the UN's experience, is Hamas or militant groups, Islamic Jihad, are they launching rockets nearby these shelters, these UN schools? Are they using it essentially as a shelter?

JOHN GING: Yes, the armed groups are firing their rockets into Israel from the vicinity of UN facilities and residential areas, absolutely.

(End at 5:31)

As they say, this should mean that the "game" is over; this should function as a "game changer." Clearly, that is not the case. Even as I write, new petitions, signed by ever more western academics and activists which condemn Israel are in the pipeline; Jews are being viciously attacked ("Death to the Jews") all acrossEurope and at demonstrations in North America. Media headlines, opinion pieces, and "rants," still focus on the number of "human shield" civilians that Hamas is sacrificing for reasons of propaganda in the belief that the pressure of world opinion will force Israel to stop before the mission of "de-militarizing Gaza" has been accomplished.

When Palestinian deaths occur, Israel is immediately and reflexively blamed—and then, when it becomes absolutely clear that Hamas rockets have killed their own "human shields," or when Hamas did not allow their "human shields" to evacuate, the world media and human rights organizations simply move on. Their "game" is blaming Israelis, not in telling the truth.

On July 24, 2014, it was reported that fifteen people were killed and many wounded due to the Israeli shelling of a UN School. UN Chief Ban Ki Moon condemned the attacks. Israel had warned of this strike the previous night and told the Red Cross to evacuate civilians from the UNRWA shelter. Hamas refused to let them leave. UNWRWA spokesman Chris Gunness tweeted that Hamas rockets were also falling on the compound.

No, Ban Ki Moon did not retract his statement or call an extraordinary meeting at the United Nations based on this clear information.

On July 28, 2014, Rockets were aimed at Israeli residential neighborhoods near the Gaza Strip. They fell short and "hit Al-Shifa Hospital and the Al-Shati refugee camp instead. Nevertheless, "several major media outletsimmediately reported that Israel was behind the strikes…based solely on Palestinian claims."

Today, a very surprising and out-of-character headline appears on the front page of theNew York Times. It reads: "Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel, Stay Silent." Not exactly high praise for Israel but given the record at the Times, a teeny opening. However, right above today's headline, is a four column photo of a UN shelter. The caption reads: "At least 20 people were killed when Israeli shells struck a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip."

This is a typical example of how a rare truth is undercut at the instant.

Indeed, the piece on the "demolished" UN School is further maximized by two more color four-column photos of a bleeding child awaiting medical treatment and of so-called Palestinian civilians inspecting the United Nations school which was "damaged" by shelling.

Yesterday, three young Israeli soldiers were killed when they entered a booby-trapped UN School. A booby-trapped school… and yet, the world's focus is not here. If anything, the rising death toll of Israeli's finest young heroes seems justified, overdue, "only fair," given how high the number of allegedly civilian casualties Hamas (whose words can absolutely not be trusted) claims.

The propaganda mill that has been well funded by so many both in the Islamic and Western worlds has made it almost impossible to get people to pay attention to the facts and to draw the obvious and necessary conclusions.

Israel is not waging an aggressive war. This is a war of self-defense.

Israel is not the capitalist/colonialist super-power. Israel is surrounded by twenty two Arab countries that have become radically Islamist and by a world that is calling for Jewish blood—yet again. Christians have been forced to flee the region. A bloodbath of Sunni vs Shiia continues uninterruptedly.

Israel, falsely demonized, is utterly alone—despite the fact that Israel is on the front line of the battle against Islamist barbarism and Jihad.

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